▲GTW-GOBU2-Ken Tang   Little Tip: Learn to categorize; be on the same side as your boss; know what your boss wants.  Recommended Books: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, The 7Habits og Highly Effective People     Different Tasks Have Different Levels of Priority   Do you often feel that you don’t have enough time? Or, that you have a lot of work that you cannot finish in time? Ken, the Director of Gamania’s Second Operations Division, provides us with some of his secrets for easily completing his tasks at work and leaving enough free time to

▲GHQ-CSO-Connie Ma   Little Tip: Form as many relationships as possible; update frequently; resources are all around us.   Connie often travels to various places around the globe. She represents the company in negotiations, the signing of contracts, and understanding subsidiary companies’ operations, and, she is also responsible for the licensing of games. As the Director of the Global Marketing and Development Division, Connie’s professional networks are like the transportation infrastructure of an advanced modern city – not only extending in all directions, but also easily accessible and readily available.     Ready at Any Time, Available within an

▲GTW-IS-Jason Lin   Little Tip: Good health can be achieved by exercising just 15 minutes every day Recommended Books: The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises Gamanians, in addition to working hard at work, have you remembered to take care of your own health as well? All Gamanians know about the gym on the second floor of Gamania Headquarters, but only a few people ever go and take advantage of it. To encourage Gamanians to exercise more, in October of last year Gamania hired Jason （林笈申） to come to Gamania and work as the dedicated exercise trainer for Gamanians

In 2000, Gamania introduced the first online game “Lineage” to players in Taiwan. With this product, Gamania started to think how to inspire the consumer to purchase. CEO, Albert recalled the Gift Card he saw overseas, which could store value and be given as a gift just like the pre-paid phone card. Gift Cards are easily assessable in convenient stores (which were the most common purchasing channel then) The Value Card was therefore created. 2000, GDS2 = Ticket to the Theme Park GD2S (Gamania Digital Distribution System), also known as the predecessor of GASH. If we refer it to

Since its launch in 2002, GASH card has been improving upon its texture, getting lighter and better each time. In the future, it is expected to become a virtual card without any weight. During of the course of such transformation, GASH left many records that marked its importance in the field of online entertainment.  1.Breakthrough—one card for all Back in the day, one game will typically launch its own card: RO card for RO, World of War Craft (WoW) card for WoW, GASH card for Gamania. But now our GASH card can be used to play games from other

People buy GASH cards not only for the game points, but a sense of adoration for a certain product. GASH cards appeared in various forms before, players buy them not only for the points but for collection purpose. \ ▲Far left: Maple Story, 2nd from the left and upper right: Lineage, lower right: Dragon Nest In addition to colorful basic style, image promotion style, what other forms of GASH cards did Gamania launch in the past?  GHQ—1000 points VIP Gift GHQ has designed and developed various corporate gifts since 2006 which not only serve as good wish to other corporate

The much familiar GASH will be upgraded to GASH PLUS. Effective March 1st, 2011, GASH PLUS will officially become a independent subsidiary. What did it need to be upgraded and establish as a subsidiary? What new services can it provide to players? G!Voice invited director of GASH PLUS, Lulu who can personally introduce it everyone!  Could you tell us what your view is towards GASH card and was there anything memorable or fun you could tell us about?  LuLu: I have a very simple view towards GASH. I think GASH represents universal value, you may even call it the

This year’s Game Developer Conference (GCD) was held in San Francisco Moscone Center from end of February to early March 2011. UI Design Center was very fortunate to have caught up and attended this gathering of global professional game designers. In fact, the gathering was filled with riveting experience sharing, ranging from casual to hardcore; from mobile, console to online games; from program, art, sound effect to marketing, covering each and every professional aspect in game industry.     However, we are not here to talk about what we’ve learned from that week in GDC (I’m sensing slight disappointment?)

Internet has already become one of the indispensible marketing tools in modern brand campaign. Official websites can be used to promote the business idea or launching of new products. Internet as a major communication tool has become a trend for years while the current trend is to combine virtual and real world. Some are moving from reality to virtual world and some are doing it the other way around. No matter what kind of method is used, the purpose is to build a deeper interactive relationship with the consumers. Now we will introduce some of these integration examples.  GT5

February 24th , 2012, Taipei suffered from rainy spell, but inside the hotel, boiled-hot enthusiasm ran through everyone’s vein. That day marked the Gama Townhall of 1st quarter held by GHQ in 2012. This time, Gamania invited the travel writer who courageously stepped outside his comfort zone and realized his dream, Cyril Chu to share his experience and story with Gamanians. Have a good APP award conferment ceremony was also held afterwards.      Three Crucial Stages in Life: Back to Zero   Cyril Chu has an impressive academic achievement and once worked for a high-tech company in the

With the rise of mobile platforms, one can see the prevalence of smart phones or iPads. The applications from these mobile devices have gradually become the up and coming digital entertainment in the market. To encourage Gamanians’ innovation and creativity and to use imagination and professional expertise to propose good ideas, Gamania launched a Have a good App contest in 2011 followed by the success of Have a good IDEA contest in 2008. The total amount of proposal submission surged from 42 pieces in 2008 to 93 in 2011 and the contestants range from Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea and

In addition to a variety of welfare and benefits, Gamania also has a great reward system. Regardless it’s individual or department, if you work hard enough, you could be recognized. Gamania will openly acknowledge your achievement and you may also get a chance to receive the highest honor—in the Gamania Hall of Fame.  ▲Gamania reward system is divided into two parts: individual and product sections.    Individual: Senior Staff Award is for staff who serves Gamania more than 5 years; Gama Star will receive cash prize NTD30,000.    Product: Best Inhouse Title is for product that generates revenue over